Downtown Brooklyn

Downtown Brooklyn is a residential and business district of Brooklyn, New York City. In 1814, the construction of a ferry from Manhattan made Brooklyn Heights the first suburb of Manhattan, and Downtown Brooklyn began to grow as the heart of the expanding borough of Brooklyn. Downtown became a major business district of New York City, and the median household income was $87,372 people by 2011. In 2010, 7,053 people lived in Downtown Brooklyn.